Causality
Causality noun - Someone or something responsible for a result.
Usage example: a supreme being is a being that, by definition, has no causality of its own
Fate
Fate noun - A state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand.
Both words in one sentence
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The theme in Berserk, where the Big Bad seems to control fate, while Guts and the Skull Knight are people who "struggle against fate/causality." Guts' power to do this stems from surviving his fated time of death on the day he was born (as well as again during the living hell that was the Eclipse).
Source: You Can't Fight Fate - The characters are aware of their fictionality, the stories they are from AND the Theory of Narrative Causality so the destiny that says so and/or the fate they can't fight.
Source: You Can't Fight Fate -
It basically looks like a colossal misshapen heart with its valves spewing out webs of causality to manipulate humanity's fate and lined on all sides with countless eyes upon closer inspection.
Source: Eyes Do Not Belong There
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